Gone Rustic: Prize Quilt

Usually when we launch our weekly giveaway, it’s an offering to readers by one of the business owners we’ve already featured via Think Tasmania. Today, we’re shaking things up, and introducing Rita Summers from Gone Rustic Studio and Gallery in St Marys by showcasing the prize straight up: this gorgeous FIRE quilt.

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FIRE quilt by Rita Summers, Gone Rustic

Rita Summers: Gone Rustic Studio and Gallery

We plan to visit Gone Rustic Studio and Gallery in St Marys one day, and give our usual first-hand account of the experience. Until then, we invite you to enter for a chance to win this beautiful FIRE quilt, an original design by Rita Summers valued at $84.15. The A4-sized art is made from vibrantly coloured fabrics: a piece of purple cotton forms the background, layered with satin ribbon and tulle with needle-felted fabric added. The layers have been hand-embroidered and hand-beaded, then fused before being stitched and machine quilted. Long black beads have been added for extra accents, and a wooden dowel makes this little gem easy to hang.

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Gone Rustic Studio and Gallery, St Marys

At the conclusion of the random draw, Rita Summers will give the winner a coupon code so they can ‘purchase’ the FIRE quilt (without cost) online. It will be mailed postage-free to any address in Australia. But please, don’t wait for the prize draw (or even our visit to St Marys) to find out more about Gone Rustic Studio and Gallery. Definitely touch base with Rita: she is giving you the chance to win a prize, after all.

As we’ve said before, the competition rules on Facebook are all too hard, so we’re going to keep this in-house. We’re also going to keep it REALLY simple. If you are subscribed to receive the free newsletter from Think Tasmania, you are eligible to enter. Apparently a random draw is still allowed in Tasmania without applying for a permit, so here’s what you need to do…

Step 1 – be a subscriber to the FREE newsletter from Think Tasmania*

Step 2 – leave a reply at the bottom of this article.

And that’s it! This will be a random draw, so comments won’t influence the outcome. But if you’d like to leave any feedback for Rita Summers about Gone Rustic Studio and Gallery, that would be really great. You could discuss your personal desire to win this prize, or even Think Tasmania… we’d love to hear it all, and we’ll be closely following all the comments. We won’t reply individually because that would upset the giveaway app (it might award us the prize!).

Gone Rustic Giveaway ~ Common Sense Please?

Leave a comment on this post by midnight, 12th August 2013 (local time). We’ll choose a random winner using our website’s giveaway app.

The FIRE quilt (pictured) from Gone Rustic Studio and Gallery with a retail value of $84.15 is the one and only prize.

Fair and reasonable terms and conditions automatically apply. So one entry each (our app is able to detect multiple entries).

Please apply common sense to all aspects of this Gone Rustic giveaway… we’d hate to disqualify someone for being silly.

We won’t use your email address for anything sinister, because we firmly believe in doing the right thing. Always. Don’t you?

We’ll announce the winner’s name here, on Facebook and Twitter. We’ll also contact the winner by email, and advise Rita Summers (owner of Gone Rustic Studio and Gallery) of the giveaway results.

What else do we need to stipulate? Nothing? Okay… then it’s over to you. Comment away! We wish you all the very best of luck. And if you’d be kind enough to share this Gone Rustic Studio and Gallery giveaway opportunity with all your peeps, we’d be extremely happy. Besides showing a little friendly community spirit by spreading the joy, sharing will also no doubt lead to similar giveaway opportunities in the future. And THAT can only be a good thing for everyone!

*We ask that you subscribe to Think Tasmania for these giveaway opportunities for several reasons. Of course we’d prefer any prizes go to dedicated followers; and we need to make sure we can contact the winners. What makes it to the Newsfeed of Facebook is a bit random, and not everyone even uses social media. Most people can receive an email however, so that’s our sure-fire way of reaching everyone. And finally, we like to share all the great things on offer in Tasmania with as many interested readers as possible – that’s our mission!

Comments relevant to this article are always most welcome, just leave a reply below. But first… please confirm the date of this article. Have you found something current, or is this ancient information? Either way, thanks for your company and come back again soon.

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Researching and reporting all things Tasmanian: what a great job! That's where Tania finds herself now, immersed in the fantastic lifestyle offered by Australia's island state. With her family, she lives it, writes about it and takes the photos to promote it. And now she shares it all with her readers...

Fantastically creative – terrific use of different fabrics and trims to convey the illusion of fire. I am continually blown away by creativity. Also I am blown away at the marvellous content about Tasmania on this website. Who needs food? One can dine on artistry and magnificent scenery!

Rita Summers is a wonderful textile artist and has many creative strings to her bow. She works with felting and also creates textile collages enriching fibres with stitching and beading and introduces wood, paper, feathers, buttons….I visited the studio back in 2011 and have some good photographs of some more of her work herehttp://suburbanjubilee.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/meet-rita-summers.html
Looking forward to your up-coming story.

Rita was Grand Prize Award winner the Biblio Art Award in Victoria and you can learn some of her secrets… She conducts workshops at Gone Rustic – her gallery/studio. We’re so lucky to have such a supremely multi-talented lady in this State.

We are moving into a stunning new retirement place very soon, and this wee quilt would be a real exclamation mark on the pristine New York White walls!

But we might be able to pick up something equally smashing when we come to Tasmania 1st November (for the Craft Festival). St Helens is our next port of call after Deloraine, and a side trip to ‘Gone Rustic’ has gone onto the itinerary.

I have just the place marked out on my wall to display this vibrant quilt, so here’s crossing fingers and toes that I’m lucky ;-)) Anna (lives on Sunshine Coast in Queensland, but visits Tasmania every year)

The quilt is nice, but perhaps a bit ” loud ” for my place. I have a lot of ” stuff “( bric brac/ collectibles, already in my home; and little crafty things I make)but will definitely visit the Gone Rustic Studio @ St Mary’s next time I drive through there. WD…

This is a truly beautiful quilt… that you are now going to enjoy every day Machele!! Your name has just been randomly selected as the winner of the Gone Rustic competition, courtesy of Rita Summers from St Marys. As an official subscriber with Think Tasmania, we’ll be sending an email to the given address right now with the good news. Congratulations!

Truly vibrant! made me think again about Dunally and neighbouring townships in what they’ve been through. if i were to win this lovely quilt i’d pass it on to them or Mel Irons at Tassie Fires-We Can Help-to raffle off and the cash help the community rebuild again. This lady is so talented! u go Rita!:)

This message marks the official close of the Gone Rustic competition, with many people keen to visit Rita Summers in St Marys at her art studio in the future. We’ll be conducting the random draw later today, so please stay tuned. Thanks for your interest; comments after this point are still most welcome but will not be eligible for the prize.

And the winner is… Machele (see above). We’ve sent the lucky Machele an email with the good news. We’re sure the prize will be much-loved. Thanks to everyone for your interest, and we hope you seek out more of Rita’s work in the future. We can’t wait to visit ourselves!